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Tron Lightcycles, in Real Life
Digital_Quartz writes "This is a clever hack, using a laptop and GPS to play the classic Lightcycles game from Tron, using bicycles and a city. The page is a little light on details, but does give the essentials, including screen shots."
As I recall, the point to the Tron lightcycle game was to make your opponent crash.
Which means my opponent is trying to make me crash.
I don't need any help in that regard. I can get into accidents all by myself.
Any game that promotes physical activity is a great idea. This is a very clever adaptation that involves exercise, freedom and creativity.
Be thankful they didn't do a real life version of Joust.
you paint one of these little bikes red or blue, and ride around somewhere roomy.
Hummunah.
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I'm sorry, but I don't know how one could squish the phrase "clever hack" enough to make it fit this activity.
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Totally cool. I mean if i was so inclined to get hit by a bus looking at a blue line.
w00t
I'm usually all in favor of life imitating art, but I don't see how this could get accurate enough to be truly entertaining.
By contrast, some 20 friends of mine were playing Laser Tag in a park after dark, and someone living in the area called the cops and said that there was a gang war going on, and something like 40 units descended on the park. They were ultimately let go that evening from the scene, but that had to be fun...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Gee, talking on a cell phone while driving is safe, so using a keyboard and mouse while staring at a display while riding a bicycle in city traffic must be really safe, eh?
I noticed that this is the second video game that has been retrofitted for outdoors. Pac man was the first one that I know of. I wonder how many of these games can actually be made for the outdoors.http://www.pacmanhattan.com/about.php
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
One of these fools pull one of those ninety-degree turns like in the movie... End of line.
I tried doing real-life pac-man with a yellow highlighter and some altoids. Didn't go so well.
I tried Donkey Kong with a fake moustache, a mallet, and my local zoo. Didn't go so well either.
I tried yelling "hadouken" after throwing a bowling ball wrapped in a lit kerosene-doused rag. The neighbor kid thought it was pretty cool.
I pulled on the passenger door of a cop car, and as he tried to go after me, I went to the drivers' side to try to floor it. I yelled "It's CJ, foo!" I forget, I was either busted or wasted...and nobody thought it was cool.
I think next I'm going to re-create Hitman: Contracts by shaving my head, and getting good with a shotgun.
The green line player is just too scary for me. He can hack a live Tron device AND go all the way around town on a bicycle? That guy went around his 2 other friends, and the long way round at that.
/Welcome my new super intelligent, super fit overlord! I hope he is not the next nerd evolution.
My GPS (Garmin eTrex C) came loaded with several GPS-based games. One is a single-player lightcycles-esque game in which you run to spots to collect points whilst trying not to cross your own trail.
The other games feature a maze, a pair-matching game a la Concentration, a Whack-a-mole type game, and an asteroids clone. I've been a little leery of trying them, lest I be arrested for wacky behavior in a public area.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
It relies on human-powered vehicles. We all know that anyone who is cool/stupid (pick one) enough to play this game is not going to have the stamina it requires. They'll all pedal about 30 feet before they fall off their bikes and pass out on the sidewalk.
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They are missing a VERY important part of Tron. You HAVE to wear the suits!
Just so long as I don't have to wear one of these suits
*shudder*
A far more elegant version is available for cell phones, so you don't have to have a whole laptop setup.
http://datenmafia.org/gpstron/index-english.php
But you could have the equivilant of a dog's "bark collar". Hit the GPS line and get a couple hundred volts.
;)
Betcha that would make you take it seriously
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The computer game prepares for version 0.2.8, featuring support for non-square arenas.
Luke-Jr
Cop #1: "Hey, did you see that guy on a bike rushing towards that crowd with wires hanging out of his backpack?"
*POP*
Cop #2: "Got 'im"
Sark to conscripts: "You will each receive.. an identity disk! .. and a keyboard
and an LCD screen
and a mobile phone
GPS
err and a RS232 cable
Oh fuck and a backpack to carry it all in
Where was I? Oh yeah...
Every thing you do, or learn will be imprinted on this disk!"
nonsig. unsig. desig.
... police motorbikes are gonna play Tron with you !
Bonjour !
That reminds me of the time the local LUG I belong to decided to see how far we could stretch a wireless mesh network in the business complex. Someone working in one of the warehouses saw a bunch of people walking around with laptops at night and got nervous.
:)
Two cop cars showed up about halfway into it. You could see it in their faces when they pulled up. "Oh, this is just some geek meeting, nothing to worry about here."
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